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Doing a story of poor people or government employees “scamming” the system is an old stand-by for lazy news organizations. It focuses blame on the victim and isolates the handful that were going to get caught anyway. Like the Katrina victims, politicials hoping to make hay will feed them the story so they don’t have to do any research.

Now have a 1%’er get rip the government off for millions of dollars, and all you will hear from the news media is silence – except perhaps a few cricket’s chirping.

The conservative Tribal Media Talk radio people were in high gear, spinning the results of yesterday. In no way was it the tea bagger’s fault. A) Republican politicians who voted for the bill are surrender monkeys. It’s the RINOs fault. B) Renegging on the debt wouldn’t have been as bad as they were predicting. It’s the media’s fault. c) The American people are fickle bastards. Polls said the American people hated Obamacare and the deficit, but when republicans did something about them, the republicans were turned on and blamed. It’s those people’s fault.

…”Right now, 375 of the 435 House of Representative seats up for election next year are rated as “safe” for one party or the other by political science professor Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia’s Center for the Study of Politics.

And only eight are tabbed as ‘toss up’ by Sabato in his well-respected “Crystal Ball,” which tracks competition in federal contests…..

MSNBCIf you want change, ‘win an election’ In first extended remarks since the government reopened, president says the public has grown “fed up” with its government, and called on the GOP to end political brinkmanship. President: Shutdown caused ‘completely unnecessary damage’ Up to $24B for nothing: Counting cost of the crisis First Read: It’s all pain, no gain for Republicans

The GuardianObama admits ‘there are no winners here’ after signing deal to end shutdown Government employees return to work after 16 days as president warns Washington against repeat of political brinkmanship

CNNThe winners and losers Shutdown mess may have actually benefitted a few – In every fight there are winners and losers, and the battle over the government shutdown is no exception. Is Cruz the male Sarah Palin?

Fox News“What Ceiling?” IT DIDN’T SEEM LIKE IT THEN, but the winter of ’09 — when America’s debt was just over $10 trillion and Barack Obama was taking his first oath of office — seems like the ‘good ol’ days’ as five years and six shattered debt-ceilings later, America’s debt is set to hit $17 trillion, with no end in sight. Don’t buy the hype: US remains world’s safe haven despite DC’s antics READ: Senate bill to fund gov’t | Deal ends gov’t slimdown, but leaves future uncertain

Republican Bitch McConnell got a 2.9 billion dollar damn dam project (like a bribe) in order to avert a “debt crisis”. Gee, wouldn’t a damn dam project of 2.9 billion only worsen the government handout project that Republicans have been railing about? Oh, or is it okay as long as the government spending is for the Republican’s home state?

Wow, Coming back to HA DUMMOCRETINS and it’s the SSDD. What’s very telling is Obummer and Congressional DUMMOCRETINS didn’t care abbout America. They would gladly shut down America and cause a credit default. The perfect RNC message for 2014 Elections.

Congressional DUMMOCRETINS in da Senate under Scary Land Deal Reid stopped the dead hero veterans’ families from getting their $100,000 death benefit for their family members deaths. The perfect RNC message for 2014 Elections.

Congressional DUMMOCRETINS called Republicans every vile name in the book. The perfect RNC message for 2014 Elections.

Well if you didn’t hang with Roger SENILE DUMBASS and LUNATIC Wabbit’s stoooooooooooopid web sites you’d learn some truths…

When asked about the project, McConnell’s office referred TIME to Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), two members on the Senate committee that is responsible for appropriations. Their office said McConnell was not directly responsible for inserting the language. “According to the Army Corps of Engineers, 160 million taxpayer dollars will be wasted because of canceled contracts if this language is not included,” wrote Sen. Alexander in a statement to TIME. “Senator Feinstein and I, as chairman and ranking member of the Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee, requested this provision. It has already been approved this year by the House and Senate.” A spokesman for Sen. Feinstein agreed that the increased funding was nothing new.

@16 This post shows what a little wind-up toy of the right the puddibigot is. His preacherman tells him whom to hate, and the teevee people on Fox tell him that big bad Obama tried to destroy government.

The puddibigot is, of course, just a pale imitation of Michelle Bachmann:

September 28:WaPo: “We’re very excited,” said Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.). “It’s exactly what we wanted, and we got it.”

October 17: …tells Hannity, “he knew the Republicans were willing to be the adults in the room to make sure the county didn’t go into default.”

Sort of like saying, “It was just a joke” when no one laughs at your racist comment.

The Teahaddists, frightened, resentful, old, white people being left behind by history are lashing out and are perfectly willing to re-kindle the ‘War of Northern Aggression” and engage in sedition and nullification against the Union.

And then there’s the puddibigot, scampering right along with the nitwit parade, desperate to be one of the stupid resentful old white people. I guess two out of four (stupid and resentful) ain’t bad.

“I voted ‘no’ on the bill because this means that Barack Obama got a hundred percent of what he wanted. His stand from the very beginning was no negotiation,” Bachmann, head of the House Tea Party Caucus, told Fox News’ Sean Hannity last night.

Tea Party racism… the standard meme of HA DUMMOCRETINS. So the Taxed Enough Already Party hating higher taxes is racist SCHMUCKO-MORON? Well why aren’t you donating a higher level of taxes back to the federal government? Oh wait that means you are a racist too!

You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”

It’s a direct arc from the Southern Strategy, through Philadelphia Mississippi and Ronnie ‘States’ Rights” Reagan, to the old/white/frightened/resentful Teahaddists.

Meanwhile in other news not centered around the loathsome SCHMUCKO-MORON

Insurers say the federal health-care marketplace is generating flawed data that is straining their ability to handle even the trickle of enrollees who have gotten through so far, in a sign that technological problems extend further than the website traffic and software issues already identified.

So, Satan wants everyone to have health care, but God wants his chosen few to be so wealthy that they could never spend it all in a thousand lifetimes and squash everyone they see like the insects they are?

Professor Krugman lays out the damage done by seditious Teahaddist Republicans since 2010…

…it’s important to recognize that the economic damage from obstruction and extortion didn’t start when the G.O.P. shut down the government. On the contrary, it has been an ongoing process, dating back to the Republican takeover of the House in 2010.

…“crisis driven” fiscal policy — which has been the norm since 2010 — has subtracted about 1 percent off the U.S. growth rate for the past three years. This implies cumulative economic losses — the value of goods and services that America could and should have produced, but didn’t — of around $700 billion.

He quotes this report – from Pete Peterson of all places – that quantifies the damage done by the saboteurs of the right-wing Republicans who hold our government hostage.

Krugman again, after dissing Peterson’s complaint about ‘uncertainty’ – the confidence fairies again – but goes after the real meat in the report, the lack of government action in the midst of a demand crisis…

The main driver of their estimates is the sharp fall since 2010 in discretionary spending as a share of G.D.P. — that is, in spending that, unlike spending on programs like Social Security and Medicare, must be approved by Congress each year. Since the biggest problem the U.S. economy faces is still inadequate overall demand, this fall in spending has depressed both growth and employment.

Krugman points out that the Teahaddists in the House are both morally stunted and economically feckless…

Slashing benefits to the unemployed because you think they have it too easy is cruel even in normal times, but it has the side effect of destroying jobs when the economy is already depressed. Defending tax cuts for the wealthy while happily scrapping tax cuts for ordinary workers means redistributing money from people likely to spend it to people who are likely to sit on it.

The southern/while/old/frightened caucus that the Teahaddists represent – and ouddybigot defends – are likes zombies that just won’t stop in their mindless efforts to drive the entire country not into a ditch, but off a cliff.

To repeat the obvious, Pud, we had an election. One guy said he would undo the affordable care act, the other was it’s proponent. The guy who wanted to undo it lost. There was a clear opportunity for the American people to get what you say they want, and that’s not the way it went. Now the Republicans stomp their feet and hold their breath and shut down the government. Remember, the Senate sent over a budget. We would not need the continuing resolution that this argument was over if the House was not AFRAID to negotiate over the budget.

So no, the Democrats in the Senate and the President did not shut down the government, the Republicans did.

Oh really? Who didn’t sign the various house bills “K”? DUMMOCRETIN Harry Reid. Who made the pentagon not deliver those death benefits Fisher House had to cover due to Senate intrangigence? DUMMOCRETINS. Who closed the national parks to WWII Veterans? Obummer DUMMOCRETINS. DUMMOCRETINS don’t care about the common man… that’s why the individual mandate is still there while so many other parts of Obummercare are delayed!

<Tea Party aligned Georgia Rep. Tom Graves (R), who castigates Washington for fiscal irresponsibility, reached an out of court settlement Wednesday after he was sued for defaulting on a $2.2 million loan — which his attorney argued is the bank's fault for lending him the money in the first place.

Graves and his business partner Chip Rogers — who is the state Senate's Republican majority leader — took out a $2.2 million loan from the Bartow County Bank in 2007 to buy and renovate a local motel. The project soon went belly-up.

If you learn nothing else, understand that you should never loan money to a teabagging Republican.

Now the truth is starting to trickle out about Obummercare… But wait this can’t be true… higher health care prices?

What has happened, at least so far, presents itself in several layers. One key problem, which to date has been the most prominent in public, has to do with a late-in-the-game decision to require users to go through a complex account-creation process before even reaching any coverage options. Administration officials apparently went back and forth several times on this question, and the ultimate decision required the creation of a series of patches over an already developed site in a very short time. Most of the problems people have faced so far are a function of that decision, and have had to do with creating user accounts and so getting through the very first steps involved in purchasing coverage. Some journalists and analysts have speculated that this decision was made in order to prevent people from seeing premium costs before they could also see any subsidies they might be eligible for, so that the shock of higher prices could be contained and so that simply curious observers and journalists couldn’t get a picture of premium costs in the various states. This explanation strikes me as plausible, and it struck several of the people I spoke with as plausible, but none of them could confirm it. It may be true, but it’s surely not the only possible explanation. Whatever the cause, that decision has created crippling problems that are still largely unresolved.

In March, Henry Chao, the chief digital architect for the Obama administration’s new online insurance marketplace, told industry executives that he was deeply worried about the Web site’s debut. “Let’s just make sure it’s not a third-world experience,” he told them. Enlarge This Image

Two weeks after the rollout, few would say his hopes were realized.

For the past 12 days, a system costing more than $400 million and billed as a one-stop click-and-go hub for citizens seeking health insurance has thwarted the efforts of millions to simply log in. The growing national outcry has deeply embarrassed the White House, which has refused to say how many people have enrolled through the federal exchange.

September 28:WaPo: “We’re very excited,” said Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.). “It’s exactly what we wanted, and we got it.”

teh puddibigot has run away from this fact already, so I’ll bring it up again, as he spins and spins and spins….the shutdown, the default, the defund, the contempt for government are all theirs – the Teahaddists who down deep in their souls hate America, and Americans.

Personally, for all the abuse the person who pretends to be Puddy takes here and how pointless his rantings are, he’s either in some sort of twisted S&M performance art production with his boyfriend or is so attention starved at home from his wife and at the tea bagger hall, that we are the only people who will acknowledge him.

teh puddi[Puddy name purposely misspelled and the rest is daily SCHMUCKO-MORON gibberish] has run away from this fact already, so I’ll bring it up again, as he spins and spins and spins

Hey, shitforbrains… Puddy hasn’t run away from anything.

1) You bark for Puddy. You did today over me flying 2) Puddy doesn’t jump for no one especially you SCHMUCKO-MORON 3) Ad hominem is all you have 4) Your insipid arguments are direct from 24 hr DUMMOCRETIN web sites. Puddy gets his info from Chicago Tribune, NY Slimes, Time Magazine!

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Puddybud called a bigot by SCHMUCKO! Butt minorities can't be bigots!spews:

Personally, for all the abuse the person who pretends to be Puddy takes here and how pointless his rantings are, he’s either in some sort of twisted S&M performance art production with his boyfriend or is so attention starved at home from his wife and at the tea bagger hall, that we are the only people who will acknowledge him

Oh this will be saved in the DUMMOCRETIN pantheon of HA libtard stoooooooooopidy! Puddy posted msm links!

That particular project is necessary and the funds have been budgeted before. It’s necessary. In a normal world, it wouldn’t need to be an earmark. Legislators from say Utah, would realize that putting the lives and property of a bunch of people at risk because they vote in another state wouldn’t be a good enough reason to vote down an infrastructure project.

I’ll tell you a little story. A guy ran for city council and his campaign raison d’etre was to kill a pedestrian/bike overpass that was a waste of money. (Blah, blah, blah..”roads are for cars” blah blah…”It only benefits a couple bike riders who we all know flaunt the law and deserve be menaced by drivers” blah blah..) He knocked on my door. I asked him if he knew that the project was near a middle school. He did know that. I asked if he knew that the state and King county had rated the current intersection as the most high priority project due to the danger the current configuration posed to pedestrians. (Built in the 70s in a area that had 10% of the population then as now.) He did not know that. I asked if he knew that people representing us in DC had got the feds to kick in 75% of the cost. He did know that and stammered something about excess spending, the deficit and putting a burden on future generations if we don’t CUT OUR SPENDING RIGHT NOW. (This is the point I knew I had him.)

I asked him if he ever wondered what the liability suit payout might be if a 12 year-old middle school student got killed in the intersection and a semi-competent lawyer discovered that it was rated the most dangerous intersection in the state and the city/county/state didn’t try to fix it.

He lost the election badly.

People who are against government spending just to be against government spending are morons. The tea party voters are morons. (BTW, the “Lets get McConnelL out” tea-partiers have the most to gain from this story. Not likely KY sends a Democrat to the Senate under any circumstances. The craziest of crazy guy with an R on the ballot probably wins that race unless he gets gay married in WA the week before the election and the bible thumpers all stay home.)

Simple question that will stop the “Package design will drive up costs” B.S.

“They’ll have special packaging just for Washington so we’ll pay more.”

me “They have regional packaging all the time. I’m watching baseball right now. Last year the San Francisco Giants won the World Series and Budweiser put out Orange bottles in the Bay Area. Do you think they tried to sell those in Los Angeles? Did the Bay Area pay more for a six pack while they were on the shelf? Of course not. But please….go on. You were saying package redesign is going to cause a huge change in prices?”

(Reuters) – The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday indefinitely suspended the law license of former state Attorney General Phill Kline for violating 11 rules of professional conduct in connection with his prosecution of abortion providers.

In a 154-page report, the seven-member court unanimously found that Kline failed to recognize the line between “overzealous advocacy” and operating within the limits of the law and his professional obligations.

“The violations we have found are significant and numerous, and Kline’s inability or refusal to acknowledge or address their significance is particularly troubling in light of his service as the chief prosecuting attorney for this state and its most populous county,” the court wrote.

Well, good. Nice to see that there are still a few people in Kansas that care about the rule of law.

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